crypto scams
2025-04-24 02:24:25.730984+02 by
Dan Lyke
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In a link to the FBI IC3 (Internet Crime Complaint Center) Internet Crime Report 2024, Molly White @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io says
FBI: Americans aged 60 and older reported losing almost $3 billion to crypto fraud last year. In total, Americans reported being scammed out of around $9.3 billion via crypto, out of a total $16.6 billion in total reported Internet crime losses that year.
...and I kinda wonder if we're doing a disservice when we call out cryptocurrency based scams as such, because that implies that there are things about cryptocurrency that aren't awful and horrible.
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#Comment Re: crypto scams made: 2025-04-24 18:20:31.802335+02 by:
Mars Saxman
frankly, I think that everything to do with *any* kind of money is awful and horrible: cryptocurrency just makes it more obvious, by forcing us to look at the situation with fresh eyes.
#Comment Re: crypto scams made: 2025-04-24 16:27:12.499989+02 by:
brainopener
Kleptocurrency.
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